The Missing Surveyor: BOOK TWENTY-THREE (2022) (Whispering Pines 23)

Some lines are drawn to mark property.
Others are drawn to hide what should never be found.

When land developer Ellen Price hires a surveyor to map newly acquired property near Whispering Ridge, she expects delays, paperwork, and disputes. What she doesn’t expect is for the surveyor to vanish without a trace—leaving behind incomplete maps, altered boundary lines, and measurements that don’t match any official record.

At first, the discrepancies seem like clerical errors. Old maps conflict with new ones. Markers appear where they shouldn’t exist, then disappear again. Parcels overlap in ways that defy logic. But the deeper Ellen digs into the surveyor’s notes, the clearer it becomes: the land was never mismeasured.

It was designed.

As Ellen retraces the surveyor’s final route, she begins to uncover evidence of a decades-old land dispute buried beneath legal filings, redrawn boundaries, and deliberate silence. What was once dismissed as outdated paperwork now points to something far more dangerous—because someone didn’t just change the lines on the map.

They killed to keep them that way.

The intimidation starts quietly. Access denied. Records altered overnight. Warnings disguised as procedure. But when Ellen refuses to stop asking questions, the threat escalates. What began as a missing-person mystery turns into a trail of violence stretching across forested acreage, abandoned markers, and land that seems to resist being uncovered.

The more Ellen learns, the more she understands the truth the surveyor discovered too late:
some boundaries exist to contain what lies beneath them—and redrawing those lines comes at a lethal cost.

Dark, unsettling, and relentlessly tense, The Missing Surveyor is a psychological thriller that turns land itself into an instrument of terror, where maps lie, silence kills, and the ground remembers everything buried inside it.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS BOOK

• A slow-burn descent into dread that builds tension without relying on gore or shock
• A sinister land-based mystery where paperwork, maps, and measurements become weapons
• A smart, relentless protagonist who refuses to stop digging—even when digging gets deadly
• Psychological horror rooted in realism, not supernatural explanation
• A page-turning escalation that tightens with every chapter
• A chilling reminder that some crimes are hidden in plain sight for generations

THIS STORY FEATURES

• A missing surveyor and unfinished maps

• Altered property lines and erased records

• Forested land that resists exposure

• A decades-old secret enforced through violence

• Psychological intimidation that turns fatal

• A town that knows more than it admits

PERFECT FOR READERS WHO ENJOY

• Dark rural thrillers

• Psychological horror with restraint

• Stories where the setting becomes the threat

• High-stakes mysteries without graphic splatter

• Stephen King–style tension and atmosphere

• Books that make you question what’s buried beneath familiar ground

Some truths don’t stay buried forever.
And some land will kill to keep them hidden.

If you’re looking for a sinister, edge-of-your-seat thriller that trades cheap shocks for creeping fear and relentless momentum, The Missing Surveyor will not let you go.

Step across the line—
and see what happens when the ground remembers.